Capacity building in evidence use
Strengthening teams to design, commission, interpret and use evidence in real world decision-making.
We bring lessons from evaluating training and capacity building efforts into our own approach. We work on the principle that accompanying change – rather than imposing change – delivers sustainable results. We have worked with clients of all shapes and sizes to support their training and capacity building needs in line with their organisational culture.
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DFID’s Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) research programme
Donors need quality evidence to say what works and what doesn’t to support the empowerment of citizens and hold governments...
Evaluating complex change across projects and contexts: Methodological lessons from a macro evaluation of DFID’s social accountability portfolio
Itad's Florian Schatz details methodological lessons from a macro evaluation of DFID's social accountability portfolio and the...
How can capacity development promote evidence-informed policy making?
Itad's BCURE evaluation team uncovers three important lessons in how and why different approaches to capacity building for...
Review of the RAP-3 Theory of Change
The 2016 review is a critical examination of the RAP3 theory of change conducted in consultation with stakeholders to reflect...
Evaluation of UNICEF’s PMTCT/paediatric AIDS programme
Itad has been contracted to evaluate UNICEF’s efforts to support scale up of PMTCT of HIV & Paediatric HIV care and...
Fifth IHP+ Monitoring Round – Country Assessments
IHP+ is a group of 65 partners committed to improving the health of citizens in developing countries by putting the principles...
Six Lessons from the 2016 UK Evaluation Society Conference
Itad was well represented at this years’ UK Evaluation Society (UKES) conference
Itad’s Realist Evaluation week – Three Lessons from the BRACED session
Dave Wilson reflects on three key lessons the BRACED evaluation team learnt with Gill Westhorp during Itad's Realist...
How can capacity development promote evidence-informed policy making? – BCURE Evaluation Briefing No. 1
This briefing note presents three lessons emerging from a literature review by the BCURE evaluation team on ‘how can...
Evaluation of Adolescents 360
Adolescents 360 (A360) was a four-year initiative (2016 – 2020) to increase adolescent girls’ access to and demand for...
Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA), Policy Briefing 1
This policy briefing of Itad's evaluation of the Medicines Transparency Allicance gives an overview of the methods, findings,...
Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) Evaluation, Final Report
The purpose of this evaluation was to assess MeTA’s underlying rationale to provide lessons for future programming of...
The Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) evaluation: Another piece of evidence supporting the value of multi-stakeholder approaches
Itad, in cooperation with Pamoja, recently completed an evaluation of the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA). MeTA was...
Itad spends week with Realist Evaluation expert Gill Westhorp
This April, Itad spent an informative and enlightening week with Realist Evaluation (RE) expert, Dr Gill Westhorp.
Itad at the 2016 UKES Conference
Itad will have lots of representatives at this weeks' UK Evaluation Society (UKES) Conference, speaking on a range of subjects.
How MEL systems provide answers for development in a warming world
This Earth Day, Itad's Sarah Standley, Robbie Gregorowski, and Dave Wilson reflect on how MEL systems provide answers for...
